Planners To Discuss Nursing Home Site

September 19, 1995|By BOBBIE HARVILLE Daily Press

WILLIAMSBURG — On Wednesday, Williamsburg planners will consider whether to amend the city's zoning to allow nursing homes as a special use in the tourist business district or residential/multi-family district.

Dogwood Realty of Richmond wants to build a 96-bed assisted-care facility on a three-acre site on Patriot Lane. Developers say the retirement complex falls between an independent-living home, where residents have kitchens and a dining area, and a nursing home where the patients need help with most aspects of daily living.

Dogwood representatives had initially requested amending the regulations for the tourist business district which contains the site to include nursing homes as a special use. However, in August the City Council suggested that it would make more sense to rezone the property residential/multi-family.

The Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the proposal during its meeting at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the council chamber of the Stryker Building, 412 North Boundary St.

City Council has also suggested rezoning 20 acres off Patriot Lane from business to multi-family residential. The site includes the Patriot Condominiums.

The Planning Commission also expects to hear from Williamsburg businessman Philip Richardson. He wants to subdivide two parcels of land on Patriot Lane to create the site for the nursing home. Richardson has said he eventually wants to build 150 apartments on 11.8 acres near that site.

PUBLIC HEARING

* The Williamsburg Planning Commission meets at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the council chamber of the Stryker Building, 412 North Boundary St.

During a public hearing, Dogwood Realty of Richmond will discuss its plans to build a retirement complex on Patriot Lane. The zoning ordinance would need to be amended to add nursing homes as a special use.